Re: Is there a way to flush the file cache?

On 29 Dec 2006 19:31:31 GMT, General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 18:52:48 +0000, Ignoramus12805 wrote:

Can you change your exercise pattern, so that you write to one file
and read from another file, new stuff every time (or at least cycle a
few gigs before coming back to read that stuff).

i

That doesn't guarantee that a file won't be forced out of a file cache.
The O_DIRECT option on open is the better way to go.

Well, since the read is done from another file, it no lnoger matters
whether original file was retained in memory. O_DIRECT sounds like a
good thing to know about, as well.

i
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